ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE PIECE: 9:8:7:5:4:3:1

9:8:7:5:4:3:1 was created for the festival TIME 20 BK, celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the fearless contemporary arts presenter Bludñy Kámen in Czech Republic. This is a Neo-Totalist piece, using deep looping techniques and tweaking on a Push & Keith McMillen Quneo within Ableton, exploring the relationships of the numbers in the title as they relate to one another over time. A faithful performance of this would take 1075 minutes, which is about 18 hours. I’ve found that it is possible to sense the process in 15-20 minutes.

There are two fundamental aspects to the work: the first is found in the numerical relationships that lay the rhythmic foundation, which develops simply into one giant groove; the second is my sonification/visualization of time, which is always changing. This piece is always changing.

I’ve recently created interactive video content for 9:8:7 in the program Isadora and often improvise on my MakeNoise Shared System and Sensory Percussion during the piece.